Pocket Guide: Albany Troy 2 stars Hotels

A city of 50,000 on the Hudson River in upstate New York, Troy is best known for its architecture, especially of the Victorian era. It boasts many samples of iron work and intact Tiffany stained-glass windows. Because of its abundance of 19th-century architecture, many movies were filmed here, including The Age of Innocence, Scent of a Woman, and The Bostonians.